Tabula Rasa

A clean slate...

Author's Note

Tabula Rasa is a Latin term meaning "blank slate." Aristotle used the metaphor of a wax tablet that starts as blank and is written upon by experiences and knowledge, suggesting that the mind begins without any pre-existing ideas. The New Year is a fresh, blank slate.

Reviews

[Lorry]

Nicely captured Craig.
At this time of year, we all get a chance to refresh snd reset our pages and hope our resolutions are more resolute than last years.
Well here's hoping they are! 😃

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I first learned of this term from Clive Barker in one of his novels, Imajica. He had it as the name of a secret organization whose members had their identities wiped. Wouldn't it be nice to reset the future without the past interfering? But history always has a way of finding its path into the future, one way or another. I was just looking at a documentary on catacombs under Paris where millions of skulls and skeletons are haphazardly buried together. Each of them had a story, a life and now they are forgotten. Time moves on until it moves on without us.